This talk explores the architecture and implementation of OAuth-based authentication for remote-hosted MCP servers. I'll walk through the specific challenges I encountered while building an MCP server at Tigris — including managing dynamic client registrations, token lifecycle management and scope handling across distributed environments.

I'll also cover UX choices like reducing friction in the auth flow, handling token refresh gracefully, and managing session state.

Our coding agents are getting smarter, but the workspace we drop them into is probably not enabling them to use their full potential. The decisions, failed attempts, conventions, and product knowledge are still crucial context scattered across people’s heads, Confluence, old conversations, and forgotten pull‑request comments.

During this talk, we'll walk through the shift from the “good old” prompt engineering to agent experience, then I'll show a practical AX experiment at my current company that led to a better workspace for both agents and the people using them.

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Depression, dark thoughts, anxiety – These are some of the words that most of us would like to add to our ignore file. Discussing mental health is still taboo in our society, and it’s even more so in the developer ecosystem, where we pride ourselves on working long hours and our lack of sleep.

More than ever, we need to talk about mental health! This is why I want to share my experience with depression, general anxiety, ADHD, and experience volunteering at a suicide prevention hotline. Along with my thoughts on how we can improve the situation, I’ll be sharing some tips to help people be more open about these topics and issues – more importantly, I want to touch on how those struggling can ask for help and assistance when needed.

An opinion and methodologies on how to modernize an outdated and unmaintained codebase while at the same time delivering features. We will also explore how AI can support modernizing a legacy codebase.